G.12 Emacs and MS-DOS

This section briefly describes the peculiarities of using Emacs on
the MS-DOS “operating system” (also known as “MS-DOG”).
Information about peculiarities common to MS-DOS and Microsoft's
current operating systems Windows (also known as “Losedows”) is in
Microsoft Windows.

If you build Emacs for MS-DOS, the binary will also run on Windows
3.X, Windows NT, Windows 9X/ME, Windows 2000/XP, or OS/2 as a DOS
application; all of this chapter applies for all of those systems, if
you use an Emacs that was built for MS-DOS.

See Text and Binary, for information
about Emacs's special handling of text files under MS-DOS (and Windows).